A burrowing bivalve mollusc which has a highly convex, almost spherical, shell.
犬鸟蛤，蚶蜊
Family Glycimeridae: many species
Example sentencesExamples
There is plenty of life, judging by the number of shells lying around, including razor shells, big Arctica islandica and dog cockles.
Note the brown colour of the dog cockles, indicating that the sand is polluted by mud.
Further north in the lough the waters slow and coarse submarine sand dunes are inhabited by a type of sea-cucumber and dog cockles.
Some 68% of the species are encrusters and form colourful, circular, or linear patches on hard substrata, especially dead scallop shells and dog cockles.
Coarse gravels and sands are home to sea-cucumbers and dog cockles, largely buried for protection, and tough sea-mats, able to withstand the scouring of water-borne sand.
Definition of dog cockle in US English:
dog cockle
noun
A burrowing bivalve mollusk which has a highly convex, almost spherical, shell.
犬鸟蛤，蚶蜊
Family Glycimeridae: many species, including the European Glycymeris glycymeris
Example sentencesExamples
Further north in the lough the waters slow and coarse submarine sand dunes are inhabited by a type of sea-cucumber and dog cockles.
Coarse gravels and sands are home to sea-cucumbers and dog cockles, largely buried for protection, and tough sea-mats, able to withstand the scouring of water-borne sand.
Note the brown colour of the dog cockles, indicating that the sand is polluted by mud.
There is plenty of life, judging by the number of shells lying around, including razor shells, big Arctica islandica and dog cockles.
Some 68% of the species are encrusters and form colourful, circular, or linear patches on hard substrata, especially dead scallop shells and dog cockles.